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IR 101

WHAT IS IT?

DEFINITION

• Study of international events and actors.

ACTORS

• State- • monopoly on the legitimate use of force, mutually

recognized• Provide public goods, collect taxes • Uni, Bi, and multipolar • Non-State- recent trend

LEGIT

IMPORTANCE

• Critical in the international realm- determines security guarantees and cooperation• Authority is power with legitimacy

EXAMPLES

• Some states?• Some in contention- Palestine, Iraq in 05• Failed states- Somalia 90’s, Afgan 05

SOVEREIGNTY

• Defines a state• Highest political • Highest political authority• No other unit has coercive authority

POWER

• Market• Cultural• Military

GLOBALIZATION

• International economic and otherwise interdependence• Free trade vs. protectionism• International development • Liberal values • Democratic peace• Transnational Threats

NON STATE

• NGO- charities, political groups, turrrrrits • International Org- UN, IMF, World Bank• Multinational Corp

CONFLICT

• Iter vs. Intra State conflict

NEO-REALISM NEO-LIBERAL INSTITUTIONALIS

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CONSTRUCTIVISM

NATURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL

SYSTEM

Anarchy (No international security mechanism)

Anarchy (No international mechanism to enforce agreements)

Socially Contingent/Socially Constructed

KEY ACTOR(S) StatesPlural (States, Corporations, International Organizations, NGOs)

Shared Ideas

KEY INTEREST(S) Security/SurvivalPreferences (individual utility to the state)

Define Core Ideas

Cooperate on Shared Interests

POPULAR DISCUSSION• Terrorism• Org Crime• Arab/Israel• India/Pakistan• Ethic Conflict • Failed States• U.S./China• Global Economy• Proliferation• Resources • Human Rights• Democracy• And more….

DOMESTIC IMPLICATIONS

• Historical Slant to Intervention• The foreign policy of the Founders • Domestic freedoms